NFTs continue to pop up everywhere. There’s a lot of hype around them and a lot of money is involved in the NFT and Web3 ecosystem. Technologies Mature Believe it or not, the hype part is a common pattern for technologies. Research & analysis company Gartner has a famous research methodology around…

A recent study from Microsoft showed that only 22% of the Azure Active Directory customers are using multi-factor authentication. That’s a much better result than Twitter, which after a major push had 2.3% of their accounts enable this feature. What Is Multi-Factor Authentication? Authentication is the term the security community uses to to verify…

Cybersecurity research has a long and interesting history. The dynamics between researchers, mischief makers, hackers, and companies is complex to say the least. Reputation & Security Posture Understandably, companies don’t want to look bad. Most spend huge swathes of their budget on marketing and positioning themselves in a positive light. Having security holes exposed…

Another hack. Another setback for Web3. Another code quality issue costs millions. What Happened Wormhole is a service that helps you move value from one blockchain to another. So if you want to take 1 SOL from the Solana blockchain to the Ethereum blockchain, Wormhole will help make that happen. The way…

3TB of data involving airport staff across Colombia and Peru was exposed to anyone on the internet. The report called out an “unsecured AWS server” as the source of the breach. Digging a little deeper, we find that the data was stored in Amazon S3, not an unsecured AWS server. …

The deeper I dive into the world of Web3, NFTs, and the blockchain, the more I’m fascinating. This is a compelling confluence of technology, communities, grifts, and possibilities. Color.museum came across my Twitter feed recently. After reading and re-reading their proposal, I’m still not sure if this is a serious…

The concept of a smart contract is exciting. It’s a program that runs on the blockchain executing the terms of an agreement. Unlike physical contracts, the code in the smart contract is much clearer. In a physical contract, language can have unintended consequences. This is reason why there are so…

An interesting aspect of Web3 is the smart contract. These are simple programs that run on the blockchain when certain conditions are met. For decades, we’ve been creating more and more software and one thing has always held true: there will be bugs. A bug in the code is simply…

The word “hacker” gets throw around a lot. Anytime there’s a cybersecurity issue, the malicious actor is labelled a hacker. Most of the time, it’s an accurate label. However, the line can be very blurry very quickly. What Is A Hacker? Hacker originally didn’t refer to a cybercriminal. The word was used as a…